Category: Blog
Home stretch update: Dan McComb
We need your help in this final stretch. If we don’t make our goal in the next 4 days we get bupkis – zilch – zero.
Video update from Dan with the details is below.
We know you believe in this project as much as we do and can help get us there.
So pull in a friend to pledge – or consider doubling down on yours.
We are so close. Thanks for all of the support.
Much love for you and this city,
– Bryan, Scott, Dan, and Adam
Thanks Zillow: Silver Sponsor
We’re excited to announce Zillow has signed up to be our sixth Silver Sponsor, contributing $2500 to the We Make Seattle Project.
Thanks for helping support us and the city of Seattle – you’re awesome.
Will you be next? We hope so. Maybe you can get your team to pitch in for a $150 schwag bundle? Or perhaps you’re a leader in your organization and can have your company sponsor? We’d be grateful.
Oh, and there are only 4 days left to support this project, so now is the time.
New Sponsor Level: Grassroots ($1000)
As we make our final push we’ve heard feedback that startups and organizations want to support what we’re doing, but that they needed something in the gap between our backer levels.
Ask and ye shall receive!
We’re happy to announce a $1k Grassroots Sponsorship, which includes visibility in the credit roll for the film itself, an honor reserved only for our largest project backers.
Please check in with your bosses and coworkers, perhaps while holding doughnuts or casting pocketbook opening spells, and tell them this is their best last chance to get their organization on board.
If you think about it, $1000 is really just:
- $33 a day for a month, less than most project teams spend on lunch
- Or $1.35 an hour
- Or 2 cents a minute
But don’t think too much – go here and help us tell Seattle’s story.
Behind the scenes at We Make Seattle (design)
We’re on the home stretch: 77% funded with 5 days to go. Before we make the final push, it’s a good time to take a peak at how we’ve gotten this far.
For months our crack team of volunteers has been hard at work. We’ve developed themes, written scripts, brainstormed mottos and manifestos, and designed our brand, as well as crafting giveaways for supporters who help with the kickstarter campaign.
Thanks Filter: Silver Sponsor
We’re excited to announce Filter has signed up to be our fifth Silver Sponsor, contributing $2500 to the We Make Seattle Project.
Thanks for helping support us and the city of Seattle – you’re awesome.
Will you be next? I hope so. Maybe you can get your team to pitch in together? Or perhaps you’re a leader in your organization and can have your company sponsor? We’d be grateful.
Top Ten Reasons to back We Make Seattle
If our little film is fully backed, and successful, the benefits are clear. By doing a better job of telling our story about the city we love, many of the things we love about the Seattle area are likely to only get better:
- Encourage locals to dream and make big bets locally
- Inspire entrepreneurs with big ideas to start their companies here
- Get quality ammunition to throw at annoying friends who live elsewhere who say we live in Rain City or CoffeeTown (you’ll get to say “Seattle is amazing, here, watch this video”)
- Increase the talent pool to hire from (if you’re hiring)
- Creation of more jobs to choose form (if you’re looking)
- Attract more interesting shops and restaurants
- See your property values rise (if you own any)
- See more housing options in your neighborhood (if you need some)
- Get karma points for giving back to the city you love
- Make unicorns and butterflies dance around your street (ok, we can’t do that one)
- Join a community of
161177 amazing locals who have already supported the project.
Don’t wait – Get behind us now at our kickstarter page.
Seattle vs. Silicon Valley: does it matter?
The meme “the next silicon valley” has been trumpeted for years , used by journalists and entrepreneurs to draw attention to themselves. And it’s a common refrain among startup founders, with their own pet arguments for why their location is better than the SF-Bay, or at least better than the other contenders.
Major articles in Inc. (Is NYC the next Silicon Valley?), MIT (Is Chicago the next Silicon Valley?), Washington Post (Tel Aviv bids to be next Silicon Valley), Forbes (Why L.A. is emerging as the next silicon valley) and others all repeat the same theme over and over again.
Progress update & Behind the scenes
We’re half half way through our kickstarter campaign and wanted to update you on what we here at WMS headquarters have been up to. We’ll post more regular updates if you want them! Just leave a comment.
As a team we’ve been meeting weekly, with two different projects.
Kickstarter:
- We launched the campaign Tues July 28th, emailing and calling all of our friends and family (Hi friends and family) to ask them to join and spread the word.
- The fine folks at Geekwire wrote about us, and soon Time magazine followed suit.
- We’ve been in full PR mode reaching out to everyone who know who loves our city and wants to help see it shine.
- We’re currently at 65% with 12 days to go.
- If we don’t make our goal, the film won’t happen, so most of our effort these last weeks have been focused on the kickstarter campaign.
Kickstarter update: 60% ($17k) funded
Thank you to everyone who has helped to spread the word about our kickstarter campaign. And a big thank you to everyone who has pledged. We would not be at 60% of our goal if it wasn’t for you.
We are honestly surprised that we have reached 60% of our goal without a sponsor at the Gold or Platinum levels. If you work for a Seattle corporation or organization please consider pledging at these levels. 5 Reasons why your company should do so.
We still have 16 days to go, which is both good and bad. It is good because we still have that many days to reach our funding goal. It is bad because this is typically when campaigns start to drag and lose momentum and attention.
Seattle, this project is for you
Hi Seattle,
We love you. Really, we do. Each of us lives and works in different parts of the Seattle area, from Fremont, to Capital Hill, to Redmond and beyond. This project is a labor of love for us, and we want to use our talents to give something back. We believe Seattle is a great place for makers and creators of all types, whether they make music, games, companies, software, films or skyscrapers. And all of these and so much more happens here in Seattle.
We want to share our city’s story with the rest of the world. Will you help us do that?
Please support our kickstarter campaign and share it with your friends, family, and co-workers.
Thanks Seattle, you’re awesome!
– Bryan, Scott, Dan and Adam
PS Check out what GeekWire, Time magazine, and the Huffington Post have to say about our project.
